Great love stories

February 13, 2013

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Jack Benny was an influential comedian on radio and early television, known for his catch phrases and timing that are still part of pop culture today. Before his death from pancreatic cancer in Dec. 1974, Benny had written into his will that his widow, Mary Livingstone, would get a single long-stemmed rose delivered each day for the rest of her life. That lasted for nine years until she died in 1983.

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Jack Benny was an influential comedian on radio and early television, known for his catch phrases and timing that are still part of pop culture today. Before his death from pancreatic cancer in Dec. 1974, Benny had written into his will that his widow, Mary Livingstone, would get a single long-stemmed rose delivered each day for the rest of her life. That lasted for nine years until she died in 1983.